第二节 完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后面所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
23-year-old Ann is a traditional working class woman who is happily married to her husband Don and who has given birth to two lovely daughters Patsy and Penny. Ann 26 her work with her colleague Laurie because they can 27 to each other while cleaning the buildings their work requires them to. One 28 thing about Ann is that she listens to recordings of foreign languages—Spanish, French and even Chinese— 29 driving and even working. In Laurie’s eye, Ann is not normal, but Ann 30 that nobody is normal; everyone is different in 31 ways. Laurie’s specific problem is not an unusual one: the 32 between a strong appetite for food and an equally strong 33 to keep in shape by dieting. She envies Ann who 34 slim while seeming to eat as much as she likes.
In fact, Ann’s character is 35 . One morning, 36 aft
er Don had taken the kids to school Ann 37 just as she was about to go to work. She was 38 by her divorced mother, who stays alongside her. She rushed her to 39 .
The doctor discovered that there are tumors(肿瘤) in both her ovaries(卵巢) . 40 can be done about the cancer. Ann 41 from the doctor that she has only two or three months to 42 .
Shaken 43 Ann was by this news, she decided not to tell her mom and husband, and to go on living as if nothing has happened. 44 in a cafe, Ann began to write down all the things she 45 to do before her death:
“1. Tell my daughters several times a day that I love them;
2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like;
3. Record Birthday Messages for the girls for every year until they are 18;
4. Go to Whalebay Beach together and have a big picnic;
5. Smoke and drink as much as I want;
6. Say just what I’m thinking;
7. Go and see Dad in jail.
…”
26. A. shares B. spares C. enjoys D. completes
27. A. talk B. work C . affect D. help
28. A. ordinary B. strange C. special D. perfect
29. A. although B. until C. unless D. while
30. A. insists B. disagrees C. imagines D. hopes
31. A. his B. some C. any D. no
32. A. relation B. struggle C. difference D. fight
33. A. desire B. difficulty C. design D. delight
34. A. shocks B. remains C. realizes D. becomes
35. A. abstract B. attractive C. abnormal D. absolute
36. A. only B. even C. ever D. just
37. A. blacked out B. turned out C. make out D. came out
38. A. brought B. discovered C. taken D. ordered
39. A. garage B. college C. school D. hospital
40. A. Everything B. Something C. Anything D. Nothing
41. A. informed B. learned C. took D. told
42. A. leave B. live C. stay D. die
43. A. since B. because C. as D. for
44. A. Arriving B. Getting C. Finding D. Sitting
45. A. instructs B. supposes C. intends D. Imagines
